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Never Let Me Go
Book: Never Let Me Go Read Online Free
Author: Jasmine Carolina
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walked away and toward the refrigerator, pulling out a tall pitcher of sweet tea.
    “What time will dinner be ready?” he asked, turning to eye the four of us girls.
    Callum swatted his sons on the back lightly, eliciting giggles from the both of them. “Yeah, I want to know the answer to that, too, ladies,” he piped up too.
    Amanda lifted Caleb and Rhys off of the counter, setting them on the floor. “It’ll actually be done in about ten minutes, so take the boys and get them washed up,” she said.
    “Aye, lovey,” Cal said, taking the boys by the hands and rushing them off to the bathroom.
    Addison handed Jamie and Colin stacks of plates, cups, and piles of silverware, shooing them off in the direction of the dining room and telling them to set the table. I pulled my cinnamon thyme salmon out of the oven and began cutting it into pieces. Nic’s chicken was done browning and we both put our respective meats on platters and grabbed serving spatulas.
    “Mich, could you grab that bowl of asparagus sprigs and bring them to the dining room?” Nickayla asked, heading out of the kitchen with the platter of salmon and chicken in her hands.
    “Sure thing,” I said, doing as I was asked and taking the food to the dining room.
    Almost everyone was seated already. Amanda was grabbing pillows out of the living room for the twins to sit on, and she’d set up Julian’s high chair beside Cal.
    The table was set beautifully, and I took my seat flanking Nickayla’s right side.
    Before anyone served themselves, Amanda grabbed Cal’s hand, and Rory raced into the dining room just in time to sit beside his eldest nephew. We all held hands and Callum nodded to his brother, I assumed to volunteer him to do the blessing over our food.
    I bowed my head and closed my eyes, which I presumed was what I was supposed to do even though we didn’t really bless the food in my house growing up. I held Nickayla’s hand on one side and Addy’s on the other, waiting for Rory to speak.
    “Father we thank you for our guests,” Rory began, his accent slowly fading. “We thank you for bringing Colin home for the summer, and for bringing him, Nickayla, and Michele safely to us. We thank you for bringing us all together, and for blessing most of us with the most talented ladies in the world to cook this wonderful meal we’re about to receive.” He paused, clearing his throat. “Good bread, good meat, good God, let’s eat. Amen.”
    “Amen,” the rest of us said simultaneously.
    …
    Nic’s cookie dough brownies came out of the oven an hour and a half after we finished dinner. She served them to us with vanilla ice cream and a glass of lemon water.
    I, myself had ducked out of dessert talk at the table and ate my dessert in the comfort of my bedroom.
    Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had the need to read before bed. It soothed me and it made me forget about whatever was bothering me throughout the day. I’d started out with the Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger, and from there my love for reading only blossomed.
    I knew why reading was so important to me: it was something that my dad loved. He’d read me my bedtime stories every night before he left, and any time he brought us gifts home from a business trip, he’d always brought me a new book he thought that I would love. When he left, I didn’t stop reading—in fact, I continued to read even more, just so that when he came to visit or when he called, I’d be able to talk to him about pretty much the only thing we had in common.
    I was reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky out on the balcony attached to my room. My dessert was sitting on the table beside me as I propped my legs up on the railing.
    Perks was one of my favorite books. It was part of my birthday present from Dad for my sixteenth birthday, and it was one of the few that I’d read over and over again. The spine was worn and the pages were tattered after many reads—and lending it out to

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